Our weekly summary of the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
RNIB have appointed Eliot Lyne as interim chief executive of the charity, following the resignation of Sally Harvey last month.
Lyne is the charity’s former finance director and has been with the organisation since 2016. He took up the interim chief executive role on 10 April.
Prior to joining RNIB, Lyne worked with a number of charities including Amnesty International UK, Scope, Livability and Samaritans. Prior to working in the charity sector he worked for Deloitte and TK Maxx.
Claire Bloor has been appointed as the new chief executive of Somerset and Avon Rape Crisis (SARSAS), replacing outgoing chief executive Rowan Miller.
Bloor has worked in the voluntary sector for more than two decades, having begun her career as a caseworker with Focus Ireland, before working with the Fifteen Foundation in London.
Most recently she was the executive manager of settlement and asylum seeker services with Australian charity Marist180 based in Sydney, Australia. She returned to the UK in December 2017.
Fundraising and communications
Tim Hunter has announced he will leaving Oxfam to take up a role at the World Food Programme based in Rome, Italy.
Hunter has been director of fundraising at Oxfam since April 2014. He took up his new deputy director, with responsibility for private sector partnerships, with the World Food Programme in late March of this year.
Prior to joining Oxfam, Hunter was international fundraising director for Unicef based in Geneva and also previously worked for NSPCC, Shelter and now defunct fundraising agency Pell & Bales.
Non executive
Jo-ann Robertson has been appointed chair of the Young Women’s Trust. Robertson is the chief executive of global communications firm Ketchum.
She has been working in communications and journalism for nearly 20 years, and will bring “a range of experience to the charity as it continues to grow and support more women from disadvantaged backgrounds” according to the charity.
Robertson takes over the role from Deborah Mattinson who has been chair of the trust since 2012.
Age International has appointed Ann Keeling as the new chair of its trustee board, replacing Dianne Jeffrey who has reached the end of her term.
Keeling has over three decades worth of experience working in international development and has worked for charities, UN agencies and the UK’s Department for International Development.
Chris Roles, managing director of the charity, said Keeling “will be a valuable asset to the charity”.
The Institute of Fundraising has announced the appointment of two new trustees to its board.
Claire Rowney, executive director of fundraising at Save the Children and Rohan Hewavisenti, interim chief operating officer at WWF-UK have both joined the board for an initial three-year term.
Rowney will take up her new role immediately, replacing Tim Hunter, former director of fundraising at Oxfam, who has moved to Italy. Hewavisenti will take up his place on the board in July, replacing Helen Elliot.
The Tate has announced the appointment of Jane Wilson as its new trustee.
Wilson is currently joint professor of fine art at Newcastle University. Prior to that she was senior tutor of moving image at the Royal College of Art, and has held many exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
Along with her career as an artist and academic, Wilson is also currently a board member of visual artist’s rights management organisation DACS.
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